Its a game changer. 500 km range with a 10 minute recharge time, puts it into drect cmpetition with gas powered vehicles.
I still will choose a Chevy V8 product over anything else for driving the vast distances across America.
Money line From rgread article:
“USING THE FORCE
Now that solid-state batteries allow for a 500km trip on a single charge, can recharge in 10 minutes, and have none of the safety concerns that plagued BYD and Tesla in their early years, the global development and adoption of EVs is likely to accelerate as rapidly as Tesla’s curvy new roadster.”
I wonder how this will affect the solar power station world. I just bought an Inergy Solar Power Station that uses a Lithium NMC battery for storage.
Bullshit article. Not one word about the actual technology involved.
Good summary of current SOTA (state-of-the-art) battery tech.
Beating China is moot since they will steal any technology breakthrough.
I believe Israel was going to have a cure for cancer by now also. I’m not going to believe any prognostications until they come to fruition.
I am an electrical engineer who has stated this before as have other EE’s, and Musk himself recently stated this:
Our power grid and power plants do not have the capacity for an EV world, and (most say) when we get to 5% of all vehicles being EV’s, it will begin to collapse. Rolling blackouts will likely be the only solution for more EV’s.
Both the grid infrastructure and the generation capacity are woefully short of what EV’s will need, and the costs are totally prohibitive of upgrading the capacity of both to meet the need of EV’s. Add to that that leftists will not allow new generation capacity of any kind and we are headed for disaster.
Experts know this, but the public is being deceived. EV’s are doomed in the long run.
We are mad racing for an EV world and will hit the brick wall of lack of capacity sooner rather than later - but then it will be too late.
Give me our gasoline and diesel engines.
Japan may develop, but China will steal.
The forever battery, rumored since at least the 70s (it’s mentioned in an episode of Barney Miller), but it’s never gonna happen for oh so many reasons.